Comments on: 21% of small businesses on brink

By: silversurfer

silversurfer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:13:51 +0000

I have resided here in California since 1965. I have clear memories as far back as 1970 when I was 7 years old. You know what….I distinctly remember that pretty much everybody got to wherever it was that they were going and we sure didn’t need 500 state agencies to get there!

The California Air Resources Board and the California Integrated Waste Management Board represent only 2 of nearly 500 state agencies/boards yet those 2 budgets alone add up to $1,100,000000 annually (1.1 Billion Dollars). And for what? To be told how to run our gig by a bunch of control-freak, micro-managing, political class, wanna-be puppeteers who want us average, everyday private citizens to dance on the strings that they pull as if we were their marionette puppets?

I’ve been gettin’ barreled from Point Conception to the Mexican border and beyond since 1979. You think I want these nanny-state type elected officials and appointed bureaucrats tellin’ me how to run my trip? Are you kidding me? I’m about a thousand times more radical than 90% of the people who think that they should be able to tell me how to live my life.

Disband C.A.R.B., disband the “garbage board”, greatly reduce the California E.P.A. and the various AQMD’s as they are too redundant. There already exists a bloated Federal E.P.A. so why must each state have their own state E.P.A. with endless government union employees? I ain’t about payin’ the lifetime guaranteed pensions, higher salary structure, gold-plated heathcare benefits, and perks up the wazoo for the vast majority of state and federal gov’t employee union members…..I’d rather barely work and all and just surf instead.

By the way, Californians already pay the highest state gasoline tax in America, the highest state sales tax in our U.S., the highest state income tax in our country, the highest state business tax west of the Mississippi, AS WELL AS hidden taxes such as one of the highest vehicle registration fees in America and some of the highest utility & electricity rates in our entire nation. And those in the political class, bureaucratic class, public sector want even more? Check it…..you ain’t gettin’ it from me. Capiche?

By: Brannslange

Brannslange — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:50:06 +0000

Tee said: “That’s was Bushco did for bankers and financiers…”
Liberal bastion of the East, the New York Times, on May 9, 2008 said: “President Bush has vowed to veto the (Barney)Frank (housing) bill if it reaches him in its present form, on the ground that it would assist lenders and borrowers who have acted irresponsibly.” What newspaper do they read on your planet, Tee?

By: SanDiego Ron

SanDiego Ron — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:31 +0000

As someone who is planning to close down my small business, this article is spot on. The regulations and the taxes are killing us, so we have decided to shut down at the end of this calendar year, and try to find other employment in the computer field.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:56:50 +0000

As somebody who has worked for small businesses for the past 10 years I can say that this acticle is spot on.

The pressure on the businesses I worked for caused them to, 1) Sell themselves to larger businesses, 2) Accumulate extensive debt, eventually causing the business to close, 3) Outsource jobs to China cutting jobs in California.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:37:10 +0000

Tee is wrong. Bush was a massive *hyper*-regulator. Ever hear of Sarbanes-Oxley, which imposed massive, ridiculous new regulations on businesses?

And how about horribly misnamed the USA PATRIOT Act, which imposed intrusive, massive new snooping regulations on businesses?

Then there was Bush’s massive, controlling, Soviet prescription drug law.

And, worst of all, Bush-Greenspan devalued the dollar by 75% against gold, injecting massive uncertainty into pricing.

He was the most massively anti-business president since Nixon.

Next to Bush, Obama massively looks like Reagan.

— John Seiler

By: Tee

Tee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:19:03 +0000

Poorly written. No explanation of AB32. Obviously biased toward Republican interests. Reign in regulation? That’s was Bushco did for bankers and financiers, and that is the very reason the economy has tumbled. This kind of political spinmaking is sickening and dangerous to our nation.